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My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

For everyday Floridians, healthcare isn’t about politics, it’s a matter of survival. Yet, Republican Ryan Elijah thinks his party did “a great job” passing the One Big Beautiful Bill that cut healthcare for over 1.5 million Floridians. But what more can you expect from an out-of-touch TV anchor?

Cornell University President Michael Kotlikoff gave his State of the University address in which, after weeks of public and private acrimony, he said the university must do better.

Many fans from the U.S., flying in to watch America’s favorite sport in the days after Paris’s most destructive civil unrest in decades, found themselves in a city that looked nothing like what they’d seen in the news and on social media.

A single billionaire megadonor is propping up the Republican effort to stop Dems from flipping Pennsylvania’s Senate and gaining full control of government—to a much greater degree than Elon Musk is doing it at the federal level

Led my colleagues in calling on the IRS to release long-delayed data showing how Congressional Republicans H.R.1 impacted millions of people’s tax returns. The public has the right to know who is benefiting from this bill.

Maurene Comey must be REINSTATED to her federal prosecutor job with backpay, a federal judge has ruled. He adds that accepting Trump DOJ's position would "unsettle the very equilibrium established by this Nation’s constitutional system." Doc buff.ly/CDtADgH

BREAKING: 174 bipartisan former judges are calling on the 8th Circuit to toss DOJ’s misconduct complaint against the Minnesota judges DOJ wants them investigated & some barred from DHS cases, all for saying ICE violated 210 court orders @democracydefendersfund.org is proud to stand w/ them👇 -TN

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The Arc of Trump: How the President lost the coalition that put him in the White House www.cnbc.com/2026/10/26/t...

wow -- a squirming Mike Rogers gets flustered as Kristen Welker points out that while he attacks El-Sayed over the Muslim Brotherhood, *Rogers himself* defended the Muslim Brotherhood during the same period of time that El-Sayed did!

Our taxpayer dollars have funded this white supremacist trillionaire who is using his winnings—some half a billion dollars—to try and shove Republican candidates down our throats and avoid investigation and prosecution. www.americaamerica.news/p/how-long-c...

Jack Smith named Jeffrey Clark a co-conspirator bc he told Trump if Trump made him AG he would knowingly commit crimes to try to steal GA. John Roberts told Smith he couldn't do that. So now Blanche is doing the very same thing Clark did. Offer to use DOJ to steal an election.

Something that's not being said. The REASON why Blanche and Bill Essayli are so defiantly violating the Constitution is bc John Roberts said they can't be prosecuted so long as they're following Trump's illegal orders. Blanche's criminality arises DIRECTLY out of Trump v. US.

The Russians hacked Jared's phone. Then Dutch cyberspies then reverse-engineered that hack, giving them unprecedented access to his world. Bananas story in @vanityfair.com

Czech President Petr Pavel: “There was a possibility of a ceasefire between Ukraine and Russia until Trump eased sanctions on Russian oil.” By easing pressure on Russian aggression, Trump is effectively helping Russia finance and prolong the war.

Again: Why does Musk have operational control over any *military grade* version of anything. That’s not how DOD contracts work.

An important thing to remember in this case is that the MAGA Supremess ruling that Trump does not have to obey the law does not apply here since he brought a personal, civil lawsuit against the BBC. There is no pretense of it being an "official act." The judge and BBC are 100% within their rights.

Flattering Putin has been this administration's strategy for two years now. Peace is always "one more meeting away" but it never comes. I hope I’m wrong. But as long as we’re calling Putin a humanitarian, I don’t have high hopes. Thanks, Steve Witkoff…Full story up on today's show, link in comments

WOW. Really questionable tactics by Trump DOJ officials (again). Two obvious questions must now be asked: 1) Why didn’t the Trump DOJ provide the 20,000 list to the CA Secretary of State in the first place? 2) Why didn’t the Trump DOJ provide the list to the other counties for cross-checking?

BULLSHIT

Bucha is where life won. But on the road from Kyiv, hundreds of burnt-out civilian cars still line the way. Illia Ponomarenko tells Ken Harbaugh why the worst of the story must be preserved. @ioponomarenko.bsky.social Watch full video here: thekenharbaughshow.substack.com/p/ukraine-wo...

Lipetsk, Russia… BAVOVNA 🔥

The Defense Department ordered 30 universities to review their relationships with “foreign entities of concern” to remain eligible for federal research dollars. The Pentagon said all of the schools ended or “fully mitigated” the foreign relationships.

$TSLA revenue growth. (via Bilello)

Preview of tonight's Trump rally:

A judge orders Meta to pay $25 billion after a jury finds the company had misled consumers about data privacy.

I'm puzzled by Marco Rubio's role as Secretary of State. Why are Witkoff and Kushner taking the lead on major negotiations over war and peace, rather than America's chief diplomat?

NEW: New Mexico AG, @nmdoj.bsky.social, just announces that a judge has issued a judgment in the amount of $25 BILLION against Meta for lying to consumers and users about how Meta collected, protected, shared, and used their personal information.

Glad to see CNN reporting on this. @jimacosta.bsky.social and I raised concerns about DHS potentially using a military-grade “heat ray.” After 20+ years in national security, I find this deeply troubling. A weapon designed to inflict intense pain. Against civilians? Why does DHS need this?

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There is genuine public rage about Musk, which is what Congress is responding to, so when he says he will come for the people pulling the strings, he means the voters.

Freudian typo in @theregister.com: Yes, it's AI's gents that need taming even more than AI's agents.

Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan said the high court’s recent decisions on voting and campaign finance have damaged the nation’s democracy. She also faulted a 2019 decision removing the court from oversight of partisan gerrymandering. https://wapo.st/4yvo5Sr

Trump’s efforts to tear down the East Potomac Golf Course in open defiance of a court order is about much, much more than golf. Another must-read from @lizdye.bsky.social for @atrupar.com.

🇺🇸🇺🇦 Senator Tillis to Witkoff: You should go back to Ukraine and ask the families of the children Putin has kidnapped and murdered whether they agree your friend Putin is a “humanitarian.”

What does he mean pulling the strings, it’s literally politicians whose voters want them to investigate you investigating you

He said the quiet part out loud.

Elon Musk threatens Congress.

Elmo threatens Congress.

Springfield, Ohio, leads the state in year-over-year job losses. When thousands of Haitian residents lost their protection from deportation, dozens were arrested, scores lost their jobs and others either left the country or decided to hunker down at home.

❗️Zelenskyy: “We are not losing this war, but we are losing people and time.” Ukraine is discussing various formats of a ceasefire to achieve de-escalation and bring the war to an end.

While overseeing a case involving President Trump's plans to renovate D.C.'s East Potomac Golf Course, Judge Reyes said she trusted DOJ lawyers to give the court and preservationists notice before major changes. Instead, the administration gave about 14 hours' notice before cutting down 429 trees.

NEW: After reviewing a sample of voters from the Trump administration's list of 20k people it alleges are noncitizens, Los Angeles County found that roughly 25% were born in the U.S. The alarming findings come amid the DOJ's legal effort to disenfranchise those listed. https://demdock.com/3UAupKE

Vivek Ramaswamy, Ken Paxton, Mike Collins, Roger Marshall, on and on - everywhere you look the most despicable humans financed by a handful of billionaires and elevated by Trump want you to give them even more political power to serve their interests at your expense.

Trump: "The kind of that money that has been stolen is trillions from this country by crooked politicians"

In Trump’s defamation lawsuit against the BBC, the BBC is playing hardball: subpoenaing fmr Special Counsel, Jack Smith, for his depo. Meanwhile, the court demands Trump explain why he is avoiding his own depo. Why it’s likely Trump will drop the case to avoid his depo: youtu.be/QD6uqvNNd-k?...

Can we report Trump?

Trump stops talking and immediately starts dozing off